Subject: bug#77840: [bug-diffutils] bug#77840: Testing diffutils 3.12 on PPC Mac OS X 10.4.11, Tiger, produces so many failures

From: Peter Dyballa <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2025 09:52:44 +0200

> Am 21.06.2025 um 00:05 schrieb Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>:
> 
> On 2025-06-20 03:01, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>> To me "char const *const *" is not the same as "char const *" – could be for PPC Mac OS X 10.4.11 too? I do not understand these code differences anyway.
> 
> Correct. Read the types right to left. The former is a pointer to a constant pointer to a constant char. The latter is a pointer to a constant char. If you have an expression P of the former type, then *P has the latter type.

And that's alright? Because print_context_label() only uses parts of the name or names struct? Or a different view…

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